NICE Guideline 63 (Diabetes in Pregnancy) states that:
1.6.2.4 Women who were diagnosed with gestational diabetes should be offered lifestyle advice (including weight control, diet and exercise) and offered a fasting plasma glucose measurement (but not an OGTT) at the 6-week postnatal check and annually thereafter.
A study published in the BJGP (October 2011) showed that only 39% of UK GPs followed their patients up annually. I was fairly sure that we did not do this so wanted to assess how well this happened in the surgery prior to starting systems to offer this service.
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
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